by David E. Brown } 75Imagine the University came to you with a big box of Legos, Lincoln Logs and an Erector Set and a long list ofitsneeds for classrooms, labs and dorms, andsaid: "Go to it. Build the Carolina of thefuture."That really happened, in a way, for Gor-don Rutherford and the architects and plan-ners who work for him in UNC's Divisionof Facilities Services. With something closeto 50 buildings to renovate or put up fromscratch, the possibilities were plentiful. Andthey had a right good time, Rutherfordsaid- back when all this was hypothetical.But as the state's $3.1 billion highereducation facilities bond issue began to looklike a shoo-in, with roughly $500 millionheaded to Chapel Hill over the next sixyears, Rutherford sighed:"The fun's aboutover. Now we actually have to do it."Seventy-three percent of North Carolini-ans who voted in November approved of thebond issue; the next morning, several projectsmoved immediately from the playroom tothe drawing board.14